A sessions court has sentenced a man to nine years in prison in a drug trafficking case. Zahoor Ahmed was found guilty of possessing over four kilogrammes of charas within the remits of the Surjani Town police station in May 2023. Additional
HYDERABAD: The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team of the Education Department has raided a government-run school in the Hyderabad area and recovered a huge quantity of textbooks that had been hidden in the storeroom instead of being distributed to students. As per
SUKKUR: The main suspect in polio worker sexual assault case was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days after he was picked out by a witness in a Jacobabad court on September 28 while DNA tests of the victim and the suspect
KARACHI: A sessions court has sentenced an underage accused to one-year in prison for raping a seven-year-old boy. The court handed over the underage convict to a probation officer. The additional district and sessions judge (central) found the teenager guilty of committing
SUKKUR: Sixteen marriage registrars have been appointed to register the marriages of Hindu and Sikh communities under the Hindu Marriage Act 2018. These registrars were awarded certificates at a ceremony organised by the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) at its Sukkur office
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on 27th September 2024 questioned the maintainability of a petition filed by interned social worker Sarim Burney seeking the commencement of his trial in a child trafficking case. Citing the Ministry of interior, Federal Investigation Agency, judicial
According to a spokesperson for the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), a nationwide crackdown against those selling drugs to students is ongoing. In the last 24 hours, six suspects were apprehended in five different operations around educational institutions. During these operations, approximately 15 kilograms
HYDERABAD: The transgender community members took off their shirts in a protest against police harassment in Hyderabad. The transgender persons staged a sit-in outside Phuleli police station, expressing their outrage against the alleged police high-handedness. The protest was sparked by the arrest
KARACHI: Despite the World Health Organization (WHO) identifying the provision of clean drinking water as a fundamental human right, till this day, locals in Pakistan’s industrial hub, Karachi, continue to suffer the perilous health repercussions of consuming contaminated water. From February to
KARACHI: Police have arrested one nominated accused over charges of a sexual assault on a woman inside a government hospital in Orangi Town, said a senior police officer on Thursday. SSP-West Tariq Illahi Mastoi told Dawn that the police had arrested the man for